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Letter to Roger Sherman at Philadelphia, proposing that Congress should send missionaries to southern states instead of to Africa [manuscript]

by: Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803; Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793 recipient; Boston Public Library. American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection

Publication date: 1776
Topics: Africans
Publisher: Stockbridge, Mass.
Collection: bplscarwm; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Contributor: Boston Public Library
Language: English
Item Size: 13.3M

Holograph, signed

Title provided by cataloger

Dated: Stockbridge, Oct. 8, 1776

Sends him two pamphlets, one relating to the proposed African mission and asks his advice as to the wisdom of continuing this project. Or if it would be better to send those missionaries to the southern states to teach the African Americans

The Boston Public Library's American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection has been cataloged and digitized through the generous support of the Yale Class of 1955

Addeddate: 2013-07-02 18:55:20
Associated-names: Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793 recipient; Boston Public Library. American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection
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